no water and food shortages bring libya to the brink of a humanitarian crisis as the opposition again says it will not negotiate with a fugitive colonel good to see. more violence is reported in syria amid government attempts to implement reforms talks want a solution to the country's longstanding crisis becomes an apple of the score if it's not russia and its western partners. surviving on scraps of all the u.s. carmakers it once was the balance and are now reaping the rewards more and more locals hundreds roid are forced to deal and scrap just to make ends meet. a real out of this world experience a russian built orbital hotel which is due to be put into place and just behind

here is time for those with cast glass on the perfect view. but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he sonali it's four pm here in the russian capital two pm in tripoli where efforts are underway in libya to try to restore water and electricity supplies rebel leaders have asked nato countries to protect the teams trying to repair basic services they've also once again rejected the possibility of holding talks with moammar gadhafi. the notion that is in the capital where humanitarian crisis is unfolding. we're hearing here in tripoli from the rebels makes their position absolutely clear they will no be any negotiations with gadhafi and all the can provide him they say

is safety and trial the rebels information minister. has said that if even if gadhafi personally calls him and asks when he says he will not never talk to him he has added that the rebels are not negotiating with the criminals and with the killers and freeze and not talks but as i had called in battle colonel earlier duff is government spokesperson most able again has sent a message to the rubbles about his readiness to hold talks with the rebels on form in the traditional government has even sad that is his third son saadi to lead these negotiations but we have to say that kentucky is not right now in a position to negotiate he's not in a strong position at all because the rattles are progressing quite well this statement comes just a week after the assault on the libyan capital tripoli as a result they are virtually control in most of this city they are actually right

now controlling most of the country as well the situation here in tripoli i would describe this situation as humanitarian disaster tripoli council has said that from sixty to seventy percent of all residents of the libyan capital don't have enough water and electricity. due to technical problems they say emphasizing this not related to the fight scenes on the streets the city indeed faces severe shortages of food and medicine as well and electricity even here in corinthia hotel where we are staying and where most of the foreign journalists are staying there is no water and this day water free day here in this illustration is very complicated and people are struggling. well dr franklin lamb from the americans for middle east peace is currently in tripoli as well and he believes nato will not leave the country any time soon i think nato is not part of libya

and they are well armed. and tell there's a new stronger leadership here it's not a fall into it. and who becomes arguably more nationalistic on the street it was a checkpoint not a lot of fighting over aware of i'm out this morning going around the streets lots of checkpoints rounding up are those. people are example in any detail or shape with underlings who are. on it's car last night again last the government. officials popping in and out of the hotel yesterday they searched all the rooms looking for khadafy supporters. well the u.k. has gone beyond the u.n. resolution on libya so it's british m.p. barry gardner is from the opposition labor party and voted against the intervention

and he wants the full interview later this hour but here's a preview. it was very clear in the original un resolution it was very clear to our prime minister spoke in parliament here that there would be no occupation force that's one of the things that troubled me all and this was this week i'm reasonably as to whether there should be troops on the ground as the rebels were going into tripoli we would go left go there go left these instructions being yelled up by obviously british soldiers british personnel who were leading that advance group now that i think is where we've overstepped the line. in syria security forces have surrounded a town which reportedly a stronghold for dissidents the latest crackdown comes as president bashar al assad

tries to implement promised reforms in an attempt to appease anti-government protesters largely as arena goes crazy in the country and outlines of live reno russia's deputy foreign minister is in syria for talks tell us more about what we know about his meetings there and what will be happening. well at this point we do know that the view prime minister and syria's president have been in talks should've been in talks for at least the last four or five hours and they do have plenty to talk about however at this point we do not know about any concrete results of that meeting but of course russia has its own has its own only events that are happening in in syria and particularly on the way that the international community should be responding to these events as we know there is a draft u.n. resolution six which seeks to implement severe sanctions against syria because of the government's crackdown on the demonstrations which have been going on here

sporadically sense since middle of march of this year so for five months however russia is strongly disagreeing with the u.n. draft resolution. against the adoption or the discussion of the draft resolution and has actually come up with its own a version of a resolution which does not seek to implement sanctions however it that is something which the european union nations and the united states sees as somewhat of or too soft a stance on the on the situation according to various reports more than two thousand people have died since the beginning of the demonstrations in the country in march over the syrian authorities to say that. according to their numbers according to their information is that the number is a lot less than that somewhere around the thousand and they also say that there are more than five hundred police and military personnel who have also been killed in the protests so this is this to show you which syria is facing right now and we

have well we have yet to find out what exactly has been said about an incident in the russian deputy prime minister and a syrian president. of course president assad is trying to push ahead with his reforms but is there any sign it's answering he's answering the protesters demands . well there just just yesterday as a matter of fact he has come up with a new wall which does allow for greater freedom of press now and according to the newest implementation journalists will be allowed in syria they were not the foreign journalists were not allowed into the country hence a such a such a week a source of information coming from the country into the rest of the world but now apparently the journalists from all over the world are welcome to come to syria retort of what they see it and what's happening also there is greater freedom for a syrian president or syrian media however there is

a catch i think we share we should mention which is the fact that that's freedom of speech and expression does extend as long so long as the journalists or any media does not does not contribute to a different mission of the syrian state and that actually could be open for discussion however there are those the main issues which was which was touched upon by the demonstrators during their riots is job security they are asking for more jobs and with this current sanctions which have been implemented by the united states and states against syria that is the only task near to impossible to implement because none of the none of the credit cards in the country are working the banks are essentially shut down if you go down there down the streets of damascus you will see mongers lines of people trying to get something out of cash machines of course that is not happening because of the sanctions so maybe it may be the president so or the e.u. the government would be happy to do something else in terms of economic security

for the syrian citizens because of the sanctions which have already been implemented against the country that is a an impossible task so by looks of it the west is calling on the president to exert keep records and to solve the bloodshed in the country but on the other hand but the only other hand they're also you know not really engaging in bad. in a major in a major way. let's talk a beer is a special significance for syria and for the president bashar asad his father is from a village near the city in which the population is predominantly great just like the rest of the province the process began here in march of this here this is one of the main buildings this is one of the main squares in the city of latakia syria tell headquarters located on the right in the middle of this syria tell us a company telephone company which was owned by one of the cousins of the president and the protesters expressed their hatred towards the regime by looting the place

and then burning it violence returned to the top again just a couple of weeks ago claiming more than thirty lives and to government protests broke out in the sunni part of the city officials said they were battling with armed groups which they say have infiltrated the area now what's the story here the story goes according to the protesters according to the opposition answer majority of the western media sources is that there were warships stationed right here in this bay and they were shelling the sunni part of the town which is all along the coastline right over there and in the middle of that part of the town is the palestinian camp but you have to keep in mind that according to the u.s. administration who were obviously wanted from the situation there were no warships stationed in this debate on the seventeenth of august or earlier on the surface it seems to be life as usual but want to take a closer look signs of unrest come through so we got to the sunni part of the town and there are no signs of any fire coming from this side of the city were supposed

to. be there differently signs of battle you can see by the bullet holes in the walls. so. some buildings were damaged but not significant for some people unwilling to speak on camera gave us views critical of the assad regime saying the government is. to blame for failing to deliver on five month old promises of reforms this they see force the people are listed it's storing up protests there are lots of people to be interviewed may not be surprising given that we were accompanied by an armed military escort throughout our trip from attack in syria it was go r.t. . in other news when the us car industry was on its knees it took government intervention to avoid a fatal crash but while the automotive giants are once again reaping the rewards of sales people living in the country's car capital have gained nothing to trade is

home to america's big three car companies but more and more of its residents we don't life on the margins of society as art is more important i found out. this was once a city that symbolized america's innovation and manufacturing might. but today detroit is the third most violent city in the u.s. with unemployment estimated at up to fifty percent according to officials a once glamorous motor city now has more people living in poverty than cars on the streets home foreclosures a continued flight to the suburbs which takes the tax base away from the city and there's more and more of that the decline in the school system. is making people leave the city and so there's no money there really an environment there are no jobs here and as the u.s.

census points out a quarter of a million people have left detroit in the past ten years the economic scars of this once a vibrant city are impossible to escape roughly sixty thousand vacant buildings and thirty five thousand abandoned homes lined the streets of detroit hollow shells of america's middle class which have ignited an industry of scrappers people these properties of copper wire and steel pipes as a means of income. scrappers ruins for profit yards like this just five miles out of detroit scrap yard owner albert talers says he sees new faces every day were deliberately they get the prize for brad pitt or bill gregg that make it every day on the hill even more hellish is the sight of a city looting itself landmark buildings and foreclosed homes are gutted for survival go around and we're going to do a little scale british were gold in addition to scrappers an increasing number of

cash working americans. are trading goods for. greenbacks the guy in a lexus and but if the suit and tie and low brass lamp you know he's not into the. recycling kind of guy who broke short of money the u.s. president promised things would be better for america's car making capital after the two thousand and nine fifty billion dollar bailout to general motors and chrysler our auto makers are in the midst of their strongest period of job growth in more than a decade since g.m. and chrysler emerged from bankruptcy the industry has created more than seventy five thousand new jobs for the first time in six years for that g.m. and chrysler are all operating at a profit g.m. has reported six straight quarterly profits chrysler's revenue is said to be up by thirty percent nearly fourteen billion dollars from last year what about bill in

the people out bell about the corporations who bailed out the banks and doesn't mean a whole lot because the people who were in the city still don't get those jobs those jobs are still being outsourced in this once great industrial beacon of american idea where henry ford pioneered that famous model t. production schools police and fire stations now stand a bandit as many americans are reduced to dealing in scraps here if you'll take our just to make ends meet her in a fortnight artsy detroit's. the u. has called for the president of the european central bank among other officials to stand before a special financial committee as the debt plagues block threatens its very unity talks will focus on halting the spread of contagion as fresh dallas' so as panic with revelations even such economic growth we have marked marts as germany are not immune another priority will be addressing investor concerns that finland demands

for collateral quickly rael a second one hundred sixty billion euro bailout for greece and with the world markets where they're waiting for the outcome i'm now joined by patrick young executive director of the investment firm advisors for more on this developing story mr young why is this meeting being called what's going to be on the table as you see it well this is a fascinating meeting because actually it demonstrates that within the e.u. itself there is a very very significant struggle and argument over what is the process by which the eurozone needs to be saved there is a lady called sharon bowles she's the chairman of a committee called he called which deals with economics she's been very very unhappy with the activity and in recent months coming from the european union itself the european commission and the euro zone finance ministers and she's been increasingly critical of the fact that there is basically new leadership in the euro zone we keep having these false agreements that signed wonderful everybody

says the euro zone crisis is solved and there's within a marker of a few weeks we have a further crisis in another economy is going to be more money so there's a very very fundamental argument going on within the euro zone within the european union and it's going to kick off a softer noon in brussels and also at the polish finance minister recently announced that the eurozone is at threat of disintegration and sharp contrast of course with the rhetoric we're hearing from germany and france. that's how much unity is there within the e.u. how much of a fight are we going to see at this meeting well i think we're going to see a very significant argument because let's face it we've got realists like mrs bowles and also starsky who you mentioned the polish finance minister is a third realistic in this is a man who understands he's actually a lecturer in economics he's a he's a skilled practitioner of the black art of economics and therefore he understands finance which frankly to be quite frank

a lot of the euro zone people don't understand because they're pure politicians and therefore he's saying it like it is he's saying i want to keep my currency the polish watty and suborn it and put it into the euro zone until i knew that the euro zone is earthquake proof and he's absolutely right he used correct in saying that the euro zone needs to come together with sensible moos because at the moment they've been throwing money at any possible problems and all they're doing is wallpapering all for cracks in the edifice in the structure of the building and that just won't do and i think you're going to see a problem because you're going to have people like for example all the ram who's actually the monetary affairs commissioner well i mean he already looks to be in a very difficult position because he keeps telling us there's not a problem when there is a problem and in fact his own government him being finished the government of finland itself is demanding more money should come forward just cull out troll before it lends any money to greece you know the french and germans are appalled by

this whole situation because they want to try and get together a kind of fuzzy warm solution to what goes on but it's just not realistic the french and the german government want to blame poor ignorant nasty speculators but actually the speculators are wrong the speculators are people who are looking after your and my pension fund money and they see the euro zone as being indian shirt so there's a very big argument looming today why is there so much concern and what's to be done when everyone's interests at the seams. the lay in saving the ural. will not you see the difficulty here is absolutely you're quite correct everybody's best interests lie and seemingly your real difficulty is but a lot of the politicians on the bureaucrats involved simply have been too slow to realize the extent of the problem because they managed to pin two over the cracks for the past five or six years they thought they could keep doing so but unfortunately not by the deaths monton that we hired with that many euro zone

countries is just too great an markets or to worry if we don't markets go through cycles and at the moment the cycle of the market is can be concerned about how much money governments are spending and they spent a great deal of money ironically they spent a great deal of money bailing out banks a few years ago which i'm not sure that was a good move anyway but the problem is to stave off recession increase the amount of debt they need to do something very strong to reduce their steps and the problem is you know we can't all borrow money on our credit cards for the rest of our lives sooner or later there is a day of reckoning the problem in the eurozone needs but a lot of the ministers and a lot of the people within the euro don't want to take the necessary medicine because the problem is we can't just kick a couple of headache pills and hope that that's going to cure appendicitis what we need is surgery we need very significant activity to come from the leaders and so far really all the euro zone has been giving us has been hyped and sticking

plasters that they've put across the worms in the hole but when will go septic patrick young executive director of the investment firm p.v. advisers thank you very much for your analysis. well for those eager for a break from down to earth travelers are russian company has come up with a perfect solution in just five years time they're planning to open a hotel in space until the price tag is astronomical and star of protocol were found out for some the chance of having the ultimate retreat is horrific. there is getting away from it all and then there's this the best and a hotel floating in space could be the ultimate escape and according to its leaders this is no space fantasy stance on the war in europe relaunched the commercial space station entering the sixteen and receiver first guests in twenty seven. designed to host seven guests almost it is likely to become the most exclusive

boutique hotel in the world tell you the hotel will be far more comfortable than the current international space station used by cosmonauts and astronauts guests will be able to enjoy an individual cabin a shower cubicle instead of a stone to pass those aboard the eye says have to do with and toilets with flowing and instead of water due to weightlessness visitors will only be able to sleep in the bags attached to the walls or there's a choice to sleep or is some type of vertically as for the food it is promised to be delicious of the it will be a super de luxe trip everything has to be a top level. just getting there will be an adventure in itself two days onboard a russian so you spacecraft and a chance to rub shoulders with real astronauts to the hotel will be used as an emergency retreat in case of a crisis on the international space station i think everybody grab the chance if

they if they get it to go to space it will be in the future. to make the first steps now thirty three year old leave guinea want to qantas to become the country's first space tourist he may be lined up for nothing more than a suborbital flight but he says it's just the start so much just little things that old boys dream of that you feel would only fuel felt but there are so many restrictions that can prevent you from goals for example health or money and that's certainly something that is likely to become a stumbling block for most earth well as a cost of the trip of the moment the estimate price of twenty seventeen starts at about sixteen million dollars. it is aimed at really rich individuals or corporations interested in their own space research it could also be an interesting options for states which don't have a national space program but we can offer them a really good deal. a luxury room in one of the world's leading hotels certainly

has its advantages having to choose between sleeping vertically or sleeping here i'd certainly go for these questions but there's one thing about space hotel that even the most luxurious place on the planet won't be able to be and that is the view from the window after all that's what most people go there for the view of planet earth in all its beauty gary pushed over r.t. moscow. next it's always business news with you here stay with r.t. . well that's right time to get the latest from the world of business the pessimism about the prospects for the world economy is also being felt in russia become a minister has lowered the country's growth forecast for this year by a much to four point one percent despite raising the forecast for the average while price production and investment is growing slower than expected while increasing

consumption is mostly being met by imports the minister expects g.d.p. growth to continue to slow until twenty fourteen one of the disappointment after two thousand a process for russia was at the country's stake utilize time to return to present growth rates just remind the president russia was ronnie's seven eight percent g.d.p. growth a year now all schools where do we raise some growth which is relatively new to you or better russian developed country but it's still you know four percent year on year which is not very much impressive in russia ciggies as local investors do compare russia will probably count for the us i think as a result will the news for you say now is that most likely the positive surprise offender will come after the falls and fourteen because of budget time or will the cabinet would be already to repair the economic program of three blue man changes the business climate and basically you read that to invite international or a rational investment back to stimulate economic growth. search and see plaguing

the world's financial markets pushed account of all sorts of five year high last year and was from our more. research say foreign investors took almost five hundred million dollars out to the country at third quarter of the total emerging markets i'll fall during the period. that brings us to the markets european stock stocks are higher trading is the laws and markets are closed for a holiday treat stocks among the strongest performers here with the malians it's relevant seven percent financials are leading the gates of the. three point six percent and audience are weak point nine percent. of russian markets are trading higher. is gaining almost three percent on the my side so that is two and a half percent higher. and a quick look at some of the individual share moves on the rise its banking stocks are among the best performers this hour with three percent truck make a commodity is gaining as well the company has posted doing hope million dollar

profit i can still most fashion and don't last as last year and electricity produced the o.j. case six is also on the company's net profit rose just three percent in the first half of the. weather outside the business goes on for most website or to dot com slash. a little bit.

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